All of these factors combined to form the catalyst of the data warehouse project being made a higher priority than the many other competing projects within Wal-mart at the time.
At a cost of approximately $3M in software and $9M in services and training, Wal-Mart partnered with Hewlett-Packard and became one of the first companies to adopt the HP Neoview data warehousing system. One of the key reasons for Wal-Mart choosing the HP Neoview data warehousing system was its high level of compatibility with their existing investments in the Teradata databases, which were used as the foundation of their Business Intelligence applications. Wal-Mart also wanted to create a more consistent integration platform to support their Retail Link system so that the RFID data could be used for calculating the ROI of partner investments in the technology.
Lastly, HP Neoview runs on the existing Tandem NonStop operating system and kernel platform to ensure the highest levels of performance possible. Despite the HP Neoview being a relatively new enterprise-level application for data warehousing, Wal-Mart evaluated the performance of 750 data marts that HP was managing with Neoview prior to formally launching the application for sale. The result of HP thoroughly testing Neoview internally helped to convince Wal-Mart the application was tested well enough to be used in the demanding data warehousing, RFID analysis and Retail Link integration.
Conclusion
The immediate need for integrating legacy data warehouses together led Wal-Mart to also consider Business Intelligence as a competitive advantage...
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